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the carolina watchman bruner & james > editors dp proprietors " keep a check upou all yock is safe ( new series rulers do this and liberty < geril harrison ) number 47 of volume i salisbury n c march 22 1845 anecdotes of the late king of sweden young bernadotte educated with care decided early for the military profession which he entered as a volunteer short ly afterwards his regiment was sent to the east indies in an engagement with the english he was severely wounded and i'll'oi the field of battle he was found v an officer in our service conveyed to j s tent his wounds dressed and carefully pursed the handsome graceful and in telligent youth won on the affections of ljs preserver who treated him as a son until an exchange of prisoners enabled him o return to france many years passed away nnd marshal pjcrnadotte became commander-in-cbiel ja the north of germany his early friend 3-as a native of hanover the marshal kic inquiries for his family and found it the officer himself had retired from service to his native land to spend his old ; rte an aide-de-camp was sent to invite j m tothe levee he reluctantly obeyed ning no idea that in the governor of his intry he was to meet his young friend f former days upon his entrance the 1 officer was surprised to set the french marshal spring forward clasp him in his m nnd burst into tears " i see said vou have forjrotten the poor youth saved nnd fended as a child lie yn related to his officers the particulars of the event it is matter of history that upon his elec tion to the crown of sweden he had to pneounter many obstacles to leaving pa ris from the jealousy and repugnance of inaparte but nowhere have i read not tren in the memoirs of fouche that after princehead set off for sweden bona parte having repented despatched after dim two agents of his own secret police villi orders to arrest the prince at his port of embark at ion and bring him back pii ., er to paris oi their arrival they found had already embarked and his ship in ike offing from what slender chances bwg sometimes the most momentous e [ its an order of charles i s council impelled cromwell to give up his inten h voyage to america the delay ofa few hours enabled the future king of swe den to take possession of his government : stincd at leipzig to drive napoleon from s conquests in europe it is matter of history what efforts were ' dade to win sweden for the ally of france fore the invasion of russia a few tears before finland had been conquered russia napoleon offered to restore it wth the provinces unto the neva in for ; mer ages subject to the swedish crown ivhilc the french advanced through po ind the swedes were to enter finland ind march upon st petersburg through a iimirv ready to rise in their support â€” this was a tempting offer for the swedes i was a master plan in the french empe ror by wliich he hoped and hoped not without reason to wrest from russia all ur recent conquests in western europe sofar is known ; but the conference that ended in the rejection ofthe french alii \ ance has not so far as i know yet tran spired a special minister was sent from paris to stockholm hearing the french emperor's last terms he demanded a private audience of the crown prince who ; hed it at the palace of droningholm â€” ! v envoy pressed the former oilers of r inland with the adjoining provinces and uded the cession of norway and restora , tion of pomerania then in the french possession the crown prince listened ; until he had made an end of his oilers vi asked should sweden reject these ms what then were his orders ?" the ' tnvoy rejoined they were to inform him i ' tt sweden would be invaded by 100.000 ton reduced to a dependency himself de posed and some oilier elevated to its throne more faithful to france the prince then w the envoy to a window commanding to extensive view -â€¢ mark said he " the an before you ; that broad deep lake m intersects the country for seventy ; mes those forests extending on every hand all sweden is but a recurrence of at scene in such a count ry with such v't'ple so indomitably brave devoted to jwr native land what have they or i to 1,ar ' were 100,000 troops of france to jae us which i know to he impracti cable without risking a battle they would 1 op in iheir graves or my prisoners be orethe winter passed fbe envoy now hurst out into unman ny reproaches the prince listened for foment unmoved then politely told him on have now performed your duty and ll|*ust do mine by bidding you adieu there was no third person at this con gee bul the prince had ordered a v'tlish gentleman to be placed within earing and to take notes of what was ij from him 1 have these particulars the lasi anecdote is an instance of the political wisdom of ihe late king of swc j'v the present is given of his military foresight } in the spring ofthe eventful vear 1812 e emperor of russia and the crown pee had a conference at abo it is be that the russian plans for the ap foiielanir campaign were there discussed j""1 fben the emperor arranged to com nicatc every important event to bene y the prince's opinion during the con v 0 the war upon the passage of the the frontier river of russia a t0ur'"*r was despatched to stockholm vj-jay of his arrival chanced to be a le tbe f * at cÂ°urt *â– pon thn entranÂ°e of a pglish minister lhe prince said i y0rvappy 0 communicate good news to \ '."^ french army have passed the ' ytu'ii the minister requested his rov ( gÂ»ijess to explain in what manner '[\ w *Â° e considered as good news prince then shewed him that this e lvi vere*i the plan ofthe campaign i ,* low it had been thought that napo arm sl"n was *Â° 0ccupy poland to jl and discipline its people to collect to restore that kingdom then to invade russia in the spring ofthe ' following vear but now we were cer , tain that all these advantages were flung â– behind him that the emperor of france was rushing headlong into the interior of russia and that great disasters inevitably awaited the french army let it be remarked that this was said in a public audience at the commencement of the campaign while in the eyes of eu rope all things seemed to favor the inva ders the french historians of this gigantic enterprise even napoleon himself in his conversations with las casas admit the wisdom of the plan neglected and the rashness of that pursued which ended in the total destruction of 400.000 infantry and 52.000 cavalry the most numerous and best disciplined army that in ancient or modern war has ever been command ed by one chief the following instance of magnanimity deserves to be preserved it proves that neither the presence nor example of the monarchs of europe could betray the late king of sweden into what was unbecom ing to himself and due to others let us recall the great events of 1813 : ; how napoleon deserting the wretched re â€¢ mains of his russian army hastened back to france and raised by anticipated con scriptions of future years a new army of 1,0-10,00 men ; how he again took pos session of prussia and saxony fought a succession of battles without any decisive result fixed i he centre of his military move ments at dresden and there kept at bay the united armies of russia austria and prussia recall that at this crisis the prince ol sweden with 30.000 men landed j on the shores of the baltic and strength i ened by a russian and prussian division ' advanced upon the french army defeated \ marshal ney and made napoleon's re treat upon leipzig unavoidable let us remember the main characters of this e ventful hattie fought under its walls con j tinued throughout three days without the ! three greatalliesgainingonefootof ground ' until on the close of the second day the ! swedes marched into action and by at j tacking tht hank of the enemy compelled napoleon in the afternoon ot'ihe third day to seek the safety of himself and his guards ! in flight and accomplished this only by ! the sacrifice of his army by blowing up ! their only passage of retreat whether the battle of leipzig be considered by the number of the combatants certainly not ; less probably more than 400,000 men or by the duration of the contest or by the numbers ofthe killed and wounded or by i the monarchs in the field or by its results this signal victory stands unrivalled in the | annals of war europe saw herself free from the shame ! ful and gallingyoke of france and france j driven within her own frontiers was for j ced to contend for her own existence thus much belongs to history but in j ' the evening of this victory a circumstance ' occurretl among great events but strongly j ; contrasting the character of the swedish i ' prince with those of his sovereign allies j ' upon napoleon's retreat from dresden i he carried with him the king of saxony j in t sort of honorable imprisonment and ; ' confined him with his family in the ground ' floor of the town-house of leipzig in its great hate the sovereigns assembled im â€¢ ' mediately alter the battle to learn the re ' suits and consult upon future operatiens ! * the king of saxony informed of their ; ,' presence sent a gentleman of his court to | wait upon them and represent to them his ; condition ; first he was to address the em '. i peror of austria as his kinsman then the i ' emperor of russia ; should they refuse to ' interfere next the king of prussia ; and ' as a last resource the prince of sweden ' the emperor of austria mildly declin ; ed to act : the czar told him it was no bu ' siness of his the king of prussia gave a j rude refusal ; and his after conduct prov ( ed that already he had formed designs up ' on saxony from which he finally wrested two-fifths of its territory meanwhile the prince of sweden had ' been intently occupied with a map and in explaining to the generals around him the route that napoleon would take in his endeavor to reach france when he was ' addressed in his turn he immediately ' answered -*- bear my respects to the king ' of saxony assure him i should not have ' been a moment under the same root with : him without requesting the honor of pre 1 senting myself had not my military duties ' taken the precedence of all others then ' turning to an aide-de-camp he gave or ders to see the king of saxony set immc ' diately free j i woman s lore â€” in the damp and gloo ' my prison of perote says the '* philadephia ' gazette where santa anna is confined â€” while former parasites have deserted him ' old fiiends cooled and those who shouted ' the loud vivas to his honor when in power ' now cry " death to the tyrant â€” there is one attached and faithful friend who still shares his capacity and strives by a thou ; sand little acts of kindness and affection to soothe his sorrows â€” that friend is his ; young wife what a mystery is woman's love â€” and what depths of feeling are hid den in the wells of her affection ! progress of refinement â€” the vicks burg constitutionalist says that nosmoking of cigars or pipes is permitted in any church in the city of vieksburg oregon bill the bill authorizing the occupation of the oregon territory passed the house of representatives of the united states on the 3d inst by a vote of 140 yeas to 50 nays we are indebted to the baltimore american for the following condensed pro visions ofthe bill and the remarks which follow : " in the first place then the whole coun try ofthe oregon lying between the forty second and fifty-fourth degrees north lat itude including the entire space now sub ject by treaty with england to the joint occupation of both countries is to be em braced in the territorial organization pro posed by the bill a governor is to be ap pointed for live years and a secretary for the same period also a judge of the courts and a record of the proceedings of these functionaries is to be transmitted to washington every six months it is further provided that a governor may mark off the territory into districts and enforce all necessary regulations to render the militia of the territory efficient " when there are five thousand inhabi tants over twenty-one years of age thev shall have power to form a territorial le gislature the president is required by the bill to erect stockade forts in the territory to the number of five from some point on the missouri river and on the most practica ble route to the south pass in the rocky mountains he is also required to erect fortifications at or near the mouth of the columbia river " every settler in the colony of eighteen years of age and upwards is to have 610 acres of land if he will cultivate the same for five consecutive years if a married man his wife shall have 160 acres and the father shall have the same for each of his children under eighteen years of age in the house of representatives on saturday some amendments were made in the bill the most important of which was one requiring the president of the u nited states to give notice to great brit ain ofthe termination of the existing trea ty and providing that the enactments of the bill shall not apply to british subjects : for the period of twelve months after such notice shall have heen given another amendment allows to the subjects of great britain free egress and ingress to and from all bays harbors creeks and tributaries i between the 42 j and 51 deg 40 min's of i latitude " such are the main features of the or ;; egon bill it proposes a very summary ; mode of deciding the question of disputed possession ; it assumes that the whole re gion in controversy is ours and that no i other has any ground of claim to any por j tion of it " the advocates of the bill in the house of representatives have for the most part i adopted a style of debate quite in accord â– ance with the nature and tendencies of the measure itself mr bclser of alaba ma * believed that our right to the oregon was indisputable and though this question was likely to involve us in a war he was i ready to take ground in favor of it he had been watching the progress of great britain on this subject and was anxious to check her colossal strides upon the na tions ofthe earth he was airainst neso tiatwn ; foi whenever we negotiated wc lost ground " an honorable gentleman from mis ! souri spoke in the same strain the ore gon was in the possession ofa foreign pow sr and it was lime for freemen to dispos sess her we could not without disgrac ing ourselves in the eyes of foreign na tions consent to any negotiation upon this subject ve had nothing to fear contin ued this warlike gentleman from a con flict with great britain wc had measur ed swords with that government and had been successful these are brave words enough and if it comes to that we have orators who can out-rant the whole british parliament but the question is not to be settled in this way " there is one thing in which these ar dent advocates ofthe oregon bill are en lirely correct we mean their anticipa tions ofa war with england as a conse quence ofthe passage of the bill it is scarcely more certain if there may be de crees of certainty that the sun is present in the heavens than that war will follow the enforcement of this contemplated act " here then is the matter to be regard d if it is determined that the bill shall pass in the terms proposed and with the inevitable alternative in view let the country know it why are not some ad equate measures of preparation on foot ? what absurdity is this that men in pow er should talk big and utter threats and urge precipitate measures to bring on hos tilities without stirring a hand to provide for the war which they are so bold in pro voking ! these heroes of verbiage do they suppose that their invectives will suf fice to beat back an invading foe t or are they the bobadils who are to stand us instead of armies and armaments ? simultaneously with the passage of the bill to take exclusive possession ofthe oregon there should be adopted a war bill to provide men and munitions of war to strengthen our defences to put our for tresses in order and to construct new ones cotton bags would prove no protection to j new orleans against a fleet of war stea | mers ; nor would fort mchenry again go i free under the mild ordeal of a distant ; bombardment in the course of the next summer british ships direct from ply mouth docks may visit cleveland detroit and buffalo where is the city on our atlantic coast that is prepared tor defence [ against a sudden assault of armed steam : ships if we become involved in hostilt | ties with great britain our legislators ; should keep it in mind that there will be ! no child's play after the war is begun j however much there may be before the ominous aspect of this oregon ques tion now so unexpectedly disclosed has caused a partial forgetfulness of the an ! nexation business we may call to our recollection however that within a few days the mexican minister so report goes has received directions from home to de mand his passports with england and mexico both upon our hands we may have j enough to do to require at least some lit | tie preparation before hand laws of north carolina j an act concerning a peniten tiary whereas it is deemed proper and expedient j to have a decisive expression of public opinion j concerning the establishment oi a penitentiary i in this state ; and whereas such expression of : public opinion should be based upon a know i j ledge that the fund for such purpose must be rais , ] ed by a direct tax i therefore be it enacted by the general assembly of the state of norlh carolina and is hereby enacted by the authority of the same that at lhe next i election for members of the general assembly j of this state the sheriff or proper officer in every county iu the state shall prepare a box \ for the reception ol votes on the subject o pen itentiarv under the same rules and regulations i governing other elections ; and every person | entitled to vote for a member to the house of i commons shall be at liberty to vote for or a j 1 gainst a pentiteritiary those voting for it 'â– shall deposite a ticket with the word " peniten j tiary " thereon ; and those voting against it ! with the words " no penitentiary " thereon ; and the said sheriff or proper returning officer i : shall make out two statements of the voles ta â– ken in his county for and against a penitent ary one of which he shall deposite in the , f tice of the clerk of the county court and the other he shall on or before lhe first clay of oc tober following deliver to the secretary of state sealed up and endorsed thereon ; " a statement of the votes taken in the county of at the election held on the day of far and against a penitentiary ;" wliich returns lhe said secretary of state shall jay before the en suing general assembly sec ii be it further enacted that the clerk of the county court in every cdtuntv shall put up in some conspicuous place in the courthouse a fair copj of this act sec iii be il further enacted that if any shoiff or other returning office i shall neglect to make the returns aforesaid he shall forfeit and pay the sum of lift dollars to be recovered in lhe name aud to the use of the state on motion in the_superior court of law of the county of wake ten days previous notice in writing of such intended motion being given to such offi cer by the secretary of stale ; which motion it shall be the duty of the attorney general to make ; and proceedings thereon shall be sum mary and if any matter of fact shall be in is sue the same shall be tried at the first term : and on such trial the certificate of the secre tary of state ofthe particular default on which said motion shall be founded shall be received as competent prima facie evidence to prove the same sec iv be it further enacted c that the governor of this state shall open a correspon dence with the executives cf the several states in which penitentiares are now established and obtain such statistical information in rela tion to the expenditures and profits of such in stitutions since the year 1839 as may in his view be necessary for the information of the people and cause the same to be published in the newspapers of the state previous to the election also obtain the different plans upon which penitentiaries of other states have been con structed lhe comparative cost of the cells under different plans and submit the same tothe next : general assembly ratified this 8th of january 1345 yankee courtship â€” a full-blooded jon athan residing in a certain town innew england once took it into his head to '* go a courtin he accordingly saddled the " old mare and started off to pay his de voirs to one of the buxom lasses of the neighhorhood after staying with his ' gal until daylight began to streak the east he made preparations to depart just as he was seating himself in the saddle his fair one who stood in lhe door and who by the way was marvellously fond of having â€¢ sparks wishing to have him come again stammered out " i shall be at home next sunday night zeb /" zebedee who was rather ' verdant couldn't take the hint taking out his tobacco box and biting off a quid of pigtail in less than a second ho nestly answered " so shall i by gaully /' three musters â€” there are none like luther's three masters â€” prayer â€” temp tation â€” meditation temptation stirs up holy meditation ; meditation prepares to prayer and prayer makes profit of temp tation and fetcheth all divine know ledge from heaven of others i may learn the theory of divinity ; of these only the prac tice other masters teach me by rote to speak parrot-like of heavenly things â– these alone with feeling and understand ' ing â€” bishop hall from the eauigm register of march 1th 1845 revolutionary history of north carolina execi tive office ) raleigh march 5!h 1s45 \ the undersigned most respectfully in vites public notice tothe resolution adopt ed by the general assembly at its last session viz : resolved that his excellency the gov ernor be and he is hereby authorized and empowered to collect if possible such pa pers as may be necessary to complete ihe . series of letter books and bave them cop ied and arranged under his supervision : and to obtain as far as practicable either the original papers orcopiesof the procee dings of the several town county and dis trict committees organized in the prov ince in compliance with lhe recommen dation of ihe continental congress of 1774 for the purpose of carrying into effect the articles of american association and the proceedings of the various committees and council of safety subsequently con vened under the authority ofthe provincial legislature die it will be observed that the resolution requires the collection of two classes ol documents ; 1st the correspondence ofthe execu tive department from tbe adoption ofthe constitution in 177(5 till the latter part of the year 17s4 ; when it was lirst made the duty ofthe governor by act of lhe gen : eral assembly to keep a letter book lor the purpose ol recording all important let ters this period embrace the entire ad ministrations ofthe three lirst governors viz : caswell nash and burke the cor respondence of governor burke exists as 1 am informed in a good state of preserva ' tion and can be readily obtained a part ofthatofgovernor c s'.vr.i.i..has been found in the department of state since the ad journment ofthe legislature correspond ing in the nos of the packages and in other particulars with a memorandum left by him of his public papers stated to have been deposited in that oflice ; and the residue it is believed are also ihere of the papers of governor nash none have been as yet discovered except letter written to him by lhe board of war of i he state which held its session first at hills ; boro and subsequently at halifax from the 14:h of september 17*^0 until the 30;h of january 17s1 copies of which are recorded on the journal of the board pre served in the department of state fre quent entries also appear on that journal of letters said to have been received from him and numbered and filed but not copied as his death occurred but a few years after his administration and during the early childhood of his only surviving son this gentleman in reply to inquiri from me is unable to<_ivc anv information respecting tum if yet in existence and not among the masses of old documents in the capitol they may most probably be found in the town of new bern the residence of their author during the time he held the oiiice of governor 2d the second class of documents re lates to the periotl which preceded the or ganization of the state government under the constitution from 1771 to december 1776 a large manuscript bound volume in lhe oiiice ofthe secretary of state con tains the journals of 1 a provincial convention or congress at new-bern on the 5th of august 1770 at which were appointed the first dele gates to the continental congress in the following month 2 a similar convention at the same place 3d of april 1775 3 a congress at dill-borough 20th au gust 177o 4 a provincial council at johnston court house 18:h of october 1775 5 a provincial council at johnston court house 18th of december 1775 6 a provincial council at new bern 28 h february 177(5 7 a congress at halifax 4th of april 1776 8 a council of safety at wilmington 5th june 1776 9 the journal ofthe congress or con vention at halifax 12lh of november 1776 which formed the constitution is in a separate volume the provincial congresses or conven tions and in their recess the provincial councils exercised all the general powers of government judicial and executive from the dissolution ofthe royal govern ment.until ihe present organization but besides these general depositories of the sovereign powers of lhe state there were town county and district committee in the several sections who exercised a local jurisdiction in compliance with the recom mendaiion of the first continental con gress for ihe purpose of carrying into ef fect lhe articles of american association the memorials of the proceedings of these committees can be obtained only in the district where they acted : and the object of this publication is to request those hav ing control of any such papers as are comprehended in the above resolution to complv with the patriotic desire oi the leg islature in forwarding them to this office to be arranged and preserved for public in spection or at least to grant a tempo rary use of them for the purpose of exam ination and making-copies after which if desired they will be returned gentlemen in the different counties where such memorials exist who have lei sure and take an interest in such investi gation are particularly solicited to lend ! their aid in seconding the efforts ofthe go ( ernment to rescue from oblivion these honorable testimonials of our revolutiona t ry history the assistance ofthe newspaper press is also invoked bv copying this article will a graham * there is a duplicate of this in a sin gle pamphlet ms decency \ the globe in recommending to the admin istration a step in regard to ocgon which must produce war holds the following language : more ifaaa a quarter of a century ot joint ; occupation of oâ€žr territory â€” then tho establish meat ol exclusive jurisdiction ns is now ibe case â€” next a reference tn the arbitration of a european sovereign tn bold the british in pos session of this usurped jurisdiction for twenty five years more as i the case of maine v british government lying in wait and watcbino like a wif ca fir tbe coming i , oi its pastv bv s trae chance as in the ca of harrison tu catch some honest friend like daniel webster in ihe state department ready to betraj the country and give england ail she a â€” he gcttiug in return aii he waul there is a straight forward sauciness a de vil-may-care impression in ihe above which leads ns tocopj ii as .'. i ofthe times peo ple marvel that the red-shirted fellow from n york city with a small con a in their rear could hue access to tbe presidenl of il.e uni ted states mingle in the inauguration pageant and be hand and glove with ihe chief i iii of the nation hit these movements are con ststenl with m t else the lie upon lhe floor ot congress the congressman's bowie-knife at the taver and ibe language which we quote above that charges corruption and treason up on daniel webster all belong i Â» such a state of things we need not say that where thev ma ture mi rapidly thee nn he ret rmalion or ruin before long â€” /". _"Â». (,',,:. the h golden yirt,,-i â€” at _ meeting 1 â– i i on the 17th ultimo iu culprper county va the following resolutions am ng others were adopted : resolved that wm smith esq late our faithful representative in congress bas been and is now in our opinion one ol the ablest and most efficient supporters ol the democratic cause in the state of virginia we believe that in 1840 his exertions in the cause of de mocracy saved the old dominion from ihe clutch es of \\ higgery whilst almost every other state quailed beneath its baneful influence again in 1844 he buckled o his iried armor glitter ing and bright as of yore and nerving his arm for the contest flew to ii rescue ol democra cy never sheathing his sword until victory had spread it golden wings over our waving banner m resolved that wc recommend ihe aid w.m smith ivj lo lames k polk president elect of the united stales as competent to id and deserving at his hand some appointment boil lucrative and honorable this is what we call " doing it p brown very brown indeed the figure of "* i i r " and the â€¢â€¢ g da n win " is exceedingly appro priatc for the party would not give the snap of their lingers fir victory unless there was > n â€¢ *- gold " about it if mr pod complies wiih this <- n ppe there will be more nv â€¢â– â– ** 1',i '" â€¢'"' ou six month than '*"-â€¢' newspapers could chroo jc]t p^ersburg intelligencer the lead caves of missouri the cincinnati chronicle says our country is as great in caves a it is in mountains and rivers among these the most remarkable are the recently discovered had cave of missouri : they arc about sixty miles south of st louis in jefferson county nol far fiom herculaneum a series of large caves bave been discover 1 in a rich had mine which seems to be made as it were out of lead five have already been discovered leading trot the one to the other but the end i nol t t tor the end has nol been discovered the ollyx ii.g paragraph trom the st louis repubiicainml explain what is known of these caves : " genera james h^nt formerly of trenton new jersey has led the way in the discovery of tho succession of caves in this lead since ibe commencement tie last account we give of him about a month ag he bad just entered cave no 1 : he has now made his wa sixty feet in no 5 and en â€¢- i f galena are tie only hindrance tu bis further progress bel re the two last caves wire discovered ibis was considered the greatest lead on record and now the prospects tor the future s'-oir j brighten a he advances â€¢â€¢ this lead runs about south thirty-five de grees east commencing about ten miles from hillsborough the countv seal tor jefferson coun ty th le 1 1 being about fifty-fire miles s with of st louis m it is owned by a company ofa few individ uals besides the general j<-.iir of whom nvdo in this city great destruction of cotton at charleston on the morning of tbe 3i inst a fire broke out on exchange wharf among a lot of some 300 hales of cotton piled ap several tires high the engines were soon at work and the plen tiful supply of water which a full tide af forded enabled the firemen to keep down the humes and prevent them from com municating to other lots ofthe combustible material with which ibe wharf was lite rallv covered l/j'w.irds of 200 bales of the cotton was insured in the charleston insurance and trust company â€” the re mainder at tie agency of the augusta in surance and banking company of this city the cotton was consigned the larger por tion to kirkpatrick and douglas the re mainder to y c dukes a co and j is chambers native americanism â€” we are utterly opposed ays the philadelphia " native american to mixing religion with party politics and it was this very shameful and unpardonable alliance between some sec tarian leaders and the demagogues that gave rise to our party in opposition to that , alliance

the carolina watchman bruner & james > editors dp proprietors " keep a check upou all yock is safe ( new series rulers do this and liberty < geril harrison ) number 47 of volume i salisbury n c march 22 1845 anecdotes of the late king of sweden young bernadotte educated with care decided early for the military profession which he entered as a volunteer short ly afterwards his regiment was sent to the east indies in an engagement with the english he was severely wounded and i'll'oi the field of battle he was found v an officer in our service conveyed to j s tent his wounds dressed and carefully pursed the handsome graceful and in telligent youth won on the affections of ljs preserver who treated him as a son until an exchange of prisoners enabled him o return to france many years passed away nnd marshal pjcrnadotte became commander-in-cbiel ja the north of germany his early friend 3-as a native of hanover the marshal kic inquiries for his family and found it the officer himself had retired from service to his native land to spend his old ; rte an aide-de-camp was sent to invite j m tothe levee he reluctantly obeyed ning no idea that in the governor of his intry he was to meet his young friend f former days upon his entrance the 1 officer was surprised to set the french marshal spring forward clasp him in his m nnd burst into tears " i see said vou have forjrotten the poor youth saved nnd fended as a child lie yn related to his officers the particulars of the event it is matter of history that upon his elec tion to the crown of sweden he had to pneounter many obstacles to leaving pa ris from the jealousy and repugnance of inaparte but nowhere have i read not tren in the memoirs of fouche that after princehead set off for sweden bona parte having repented despatched after dim two agents of his own secret police villi orders to arrest the prince at his port of embark at ion and bring him back pii ., er to paris oi their arrival they found had already embarked and his ship in ike offing from what slender chances bwg sometimes the most momentous e [ its an order of charles i s council impelled cromwell to give up his inten h voyage to america the delay ofa few hours enabled the future king of swe den to take possession of his government : stincd at leipzig to drive napoleon from s conquests in europe it is matter of history what efforts were ' dade to win sweden for the ally of france fore the invasion of russia a few tears before finland had been conquered russia napoleon offered to restore it wth the provinces unto the neva in for ; mer ages subject to the swedish crown ivhilc the french advanced through po ind the swedes were to enter finland ind march upon st petersburg through a iimirv ready to rise in their support â€” this was a tempting offer for the swedes i was a master plan in the french empe ror by wliich he hoped and hoped not without reason to wrest from russia all ur recent conquests in western europe sofar is known ; but the conference that ended in the rejection ofthe french alii \ ance has not so far as i know yet tran spired a special minister was sent from paris to stockholm hearing the french emperor's last terms he demanded a private audience of the crown prince who ; hed it at the palace of droningholm â€” ! v envoy pressed the former oilers of r inland with the adjoining provinces and uded the cession of norway and restora , tion of pomerania then in the french possession the crown prince listened ; until he had made an end of his oilers vi asked should sweden reject these ms what then were his orders ?" the ' tnvoy rejoined they were to inform him i ' tt sweden would be invaded by 100.000 ton reduced to a dependency himself de posed and some oilier elevated to its throne more faithful to france the prince then w the envoy to a window commanding to extensive view -â€¢ mark said he " the an before you ; that broad deep lake m intersects the country for seventy ; mes those forests extending on every hand all sweden is but a recurrence of at scene in such a count ry with such v't'ple so indomitably brave devoted to jwr native land what have they or i to 1,ar ' were 100,000 troops of france to jae us which i know to he impracti cable without risking a battle they would 1 op in iheir graves or my prisoners be orethe winter passed fbe envoy now hurst out into unman ny reproaches the prince listened for foment unmoved then politely told him on have now performed your duty and ll|*ust do mine by bidding you adieu there was no third person at this con gee bul the prince had ordered a v'tlish gentleman to be placed within earing and to take notes of what was ij from him 1 have these particulars the lasi anecdote is an instance of the political wisdom of ihe late king of swc j'v the present is given of his military foresight } in the spring ofthe eventful vear 1812 e emperor of russia and the crown pee had a conference at abo it is be that the russian plans for the ap foiielanir campaign were there discussed j""1 fben the emperor arranged to com nicatc every important event to bene y the prince's opinion during the con v 0 the war upon the passage of the the frontier river of russia a t0ur'"*r was despatched to stockholm vj-jay of his arrival chanced to be a le tbe f * at cÂ°urt *â– pon thn entranÂ°e of a pglish minister lhe prince said i y0rvappy 0 communicate good news to \ '."^ french army have passed the ' ytu'ii the minister requested his rov ( gÂ»ijess to explain in what manner '[\ w *Â° e considered as good news prince then shewed him that this e lvi vere*i the plan ofthe campaign i ,* low it had been thought that napo arm sl"n was *Â° 0ccupy poland to jl and discipline its people to collect to restore that kingdom then to invade russia in the spring ofthe ' following vear but now we were cer , tain that all these advantages were flung â– behind him that the emperor of france was rushing headlong into the interior of russia and that great disasters inevitably awaited the french army let it be remarked that this was said in a public audience at the commencement of the campaign while in the eyes of eu rope all things seemed to favor the inva ders the french historians of this gigantic enterprise even napoleon himself in his conversations with las casas admit the wisdom of the plan neglected and the rashness of that pursued which ended in the total destruction of 400.000 infantry and 52.000 cavalry the most numerous and best disciplined army that in ancient or modern war has ever been command ed by one chief the following instance of magnanimity deserves to be preserved it proves that neither the presence nor example of the monarchs of europe could betray the late king of sweden into what was unbecom ing to himself and due to others let us recall the great events of 1813 : ; how napoleon deserting the wretched re â€¢ mains of his russian army hastened back to france and raised by anticipated con scriptions of future years a new army of 1,0-10,00 men ; how he again took pos session of prussia and saxony fought a succession of battles without any decisive result fixed i he centre of his military move ments at dresden and there kept at bay the united armies of russia austria and prussia recall that at this crisis the prince ol sweden with 30.000 men landed j on the shores of the baltic and strength i ened by a russian and prussian division ' advanced upon the french army defeated \ marshal ney and made napoleon's re treat upon leipzig unavoidable let us remember the main characters of this e ventful hattie fought under its walls con j tinued throughout three days without the ! three greatalliesgainingonefootof ground ' until on the close of the second day the ! swedes marched into action and by at j tacking tht hank of the enemy compelled napoleon in the afternoon ot'ihe third day to seek the safety of himself and his guards ! in flight and accomplished this only by ! the sacrifice of his army by blowing up ! their only passage of retreat whether the battle of leipzig be considered by the number of the combatants certainly not ; less probably more than 400,000 men or by the duration of the contest or by the numbers ofthe killed and wounded or by i the monarchs in the field or by its results this signal victory stands unrivalled in the | annals of war europe saw herself free from the shame ! ful and gallingyoke of france and france j driven within her own frontiers was for j ced to contend for her own existence thus much belongs to history but in j ' the evening of this victory a circumstance ' occurretl among great events but strongly j ; contrasting the character of the swedish i ' prince with those of his sovereign allies j ' upon napoleon's retreat from dresden i he carried with him the king of saxony j in t sort of honorable imprisonment and ; ' confined him with his family in the ground ' floor of the town-house of leipzig in its great hate the sovereigns assembled im â€¢ ' mediately alter the battle to learn the re ' suits and consult upon future operatiens ! * the king of saxony informed of their ; ,' presence sent a gentleman of his court to | wait upon them and represent to them his ; condition ; first he was to address the em '. i peror of austria as his kinsman then the i ' emperor of russia ; should they refuse to ' interfere next the king of prussia ; and ' as a last resource the prince of sweden ' the emperor of austria mildly declin ; ed to act : the czar told him it was no bu ' siness of his the king of prussia gave a j rude refusal ; and his after conduct prov ( ed that already he had formed designs up ' on saxony from which he finally wrested two-fifths of its territory meanwhile the prince of sweden had ' been intently occupied with a map and in explaining to the generals around him the route that napoleon would take in his endeavor to reach france when he was ' addressed in his turn he immediately ' answered -*- bear my respects to the king ' of saxony assure him i should not have ' been a moment under the same root with : him without requesting the honor of pre 1 senting myself had not my military duties ' taken the precedence of all others then ' turning to an aide-de-camp he gave or ders to see the king of saxony set immc ' diately free j i woman s lore â€” in the damp and gloo ' my prison of perote says the '* philadephia ' gazette where santa anna is confined â€” while former parasites have deserted him ' old fiiends cooled and those who shouted ' the loud vivas to his honor when in power ' now cry " death to the tyrant â€” there is one attached and faithful friend who still shares his capacity and strives by a thou ; sand little acts of kindness and affection to soothe his sorrows â€” that friend is his ; young wife what a mystery is woman's love â€” and what depths of feeling are hid den in the wells of her affection ! progress of refinement â€” the vicks burg constitutionalist says that nosmoking of cigars or pipes is permitted in any church in the city of vieksburg oregon bill the bill authorizing the occupation of the oregon territory passed the house of representatives of the united states on the 3d inst by a vote of 140 yeas to 50 nays we are indebted to the baltimore american for the following condensed pro visions ofthe bill and the remarks which follow : " in the first place then the whole coun try ofthe oregon lying between the forty second and fifty-fourth degrees north lat itude including the entire space now sub ject by treaty with england to the joint occupation of both countries is to be em braced in the territorial organization pro posed by the bill a governor is to be ap pointed for live years and a secretary for the same period also a judge of the courts and a record of the proceedings of these functionaries is to be transmitted to washington every six months it is further provided that a governor may mark off the territory into districts and enforce all necessary regulations to render the militia of the territory efficient " when there are five thousand inhabi tants over twenty-one years of age thev shall have power to form a territorial le gislature the president is required by the bill to erect stockade forts in the territory to the number of five from some point on the missouri river and on the most practica ble route to the south pass in the rocky mountains he is also required to erect fortifications at or near the mouth of the columbia river " every settler in the colony of eighteen years of age and upwards is to have 610 acres of land if he will cultivate the same for five consecutive years if a married man his wife shall have 160 acres and the father shall have the same for each of his children under eighteen years of age in the house of representatives on saturday some amendments were made in the bill the most important of which was one requiring the president of the u nited states to give notice to great brit ain ofthe termination of the existing trea ty and providing that the enactments of the bill shall not apply to british subjects : for the period of twelve months after such notice shall have heen given another amendment allows to the subjects of great britain free egress and ingress to and from all bays harbors creeks and tributaries i between the 42 j and 51 deg 40 min's of i latitude " such are the main features of the or ;; egon bill it proposes a very summary ; mode of deciding the question of disputed possession ; it assumes that the whole re gion in controversy is ours and that no i other has any ground of claim to any por j tion of it " the advocates of the bill in the house of representatives have for the most part i adopted a style of debate quite in accord â– ance with the nature and tendencies of the measure itself mr bclser of alaba ma * believed that our right to the oregon was indisputable and though this question was likely to involve us in a war he was i ready to take ground in favor of it he had been watching the progress of great britain on this subject and was anxious to check her colossal strides upon the na tions ofthe earth he was airainst neso tiatwn ; foi whenever we negotiated wc lost ground " an honorable gentleman from mis ! souri spoke in the same strain the ore gon was in the possession ofa foreign pow sr and it was lime for freemen to dispos sess her we could not without disgrac ing ourselves in the eyes of foreign na tions consent to any negotiation upon this subject ve had nothing to fear contin ued this warlike gentleman from a con flict with great britain wc had measur ed swords with that government and had been successful these are brave words enough and if it comes to that we have orators who can out-rant the whole british parliament but the question is not to be settled in this way " there is one thing in which these ar dent advocates ofthe oregon bill are en lirely correct we mean their anticipa tions ofa war with england as a conse quence ofthe passage of the bill it is scarcely more certain if there may be de crees of certainty that the sun is present in the heavens than that war will follow the enforcement of this contemplated act " here then is the matter to be regard d if it is determined that the bill shall pass in the terms proposed and with the inevitable alternative in view let the country know it why are not some ad equate measures of preparation on foot ? what absurdity is this that men in pow er should talk big and utter threats and urge precipitate measures to bring on hos tilities without stirring a hand to provide for the war which they are so bold in pro voking ! these heroes of verbiage do they suppose that their invectives will suf fice to beat back an invading foe t or are they the bobadils who are to stand us instead of armies and armaments ? simultaneously with the passage of the bill to take exclusive possession ofthe oregon there should be adopted a war bill to provide men and munitions of war to strengthen our defences to put our for tresses in order and to construct new ones cotton bags would prove no protection to j new orleans against a fleet of war stea | mers ; nor would fort mchenry again go i free under the mild ordeal of a distant ; bombardment in the course of the next summer british ships direct from ply mouth docks may visit cleveland detroit and buffalo where is the city on our atlantic coast that is prepared tor defence [ against a sudden assault of armed steam : ships if we become involved in hostilt | ties with great britain our legislators ; should keep it in mind that there will be ! no child's play after the war is begun j however much there may be before the ominous aspect of this oregon ques tion now so unexpectedly disclosed has caused a partial forgetfulness of the an ! nexation business we may call to our recollection however that within a few days the mexican minister so report goes has received directions from home to de mand his passports with england and mexico both upon our hands we may have j enough to do to require at least some lit | tie preparation before hand laws of north carolina j an act concerning a peniten tiary whereas it is deemed proper and expedient j to have a decisive expression of public opinion j concerning the establishment oi a penitentiary i in this state ; and whereas such expression of : public opinion should be based upon a know i j ledge that the fund for such purpose must be rais , ] ed by a direct tax i therefore be it enacted by the general assembly of the state of norlh carolina and is hereby enacted by the authority of the same that at lhe next i election for members of the general assembly j of this state the sheriff or proper officer in every county iu the state shall prepare a box \ for the reception ol votes on the subject o pen itentiarv under the same rules and regulations i governing other elections ; and every person | entitled to vote for a member to the house of i commons shall be at liberty to vote for or a j 1 gainst a pentiteritiary those voting for it 'â– shall deposite a ticket with the word " peniten j tiary " thereon ; and those voting against it ! with the words " no penitentiary " thereon ; and the said sheriff or proper returning officer i : shall make out two statements of the voles ta â– ken in his county for and against a penitent ary one of which he shall deposite in the , f tice of the clerk of the county court and the other he shall on or before lhe first clay of oc tober following deliver to the secretary of state sealed up and endorsed thereon ; " a statement of the votes taken in the county of at the election held on the day of far and against a penitentiary ;" wliich returns lhe said secretary of state shall jay before the en suing general assembly sec ii be it further enacted that the clerk of the county court in every cdtuntv shall put up in some conspicuous place in the courthouse a fair copj of this act sec iii be il further enacted that if any shoiff or other returning office i shall neglect to make the returns aforesaid he shall forfeit and pay the sum of lift dollars to be recovered in lhe name aud to the use of the state on motion in the_superior court of law of the county of wake ten days previous notice in writing of such intended motion being given to such offi cer by the secretary of stale ; which motion it shall be the duty of the attorney general to make ; and proceedings thereon shall be sum mary and if any matter of fact shall be in is sue the same shall be tried at the first term : and on such trial the certificate of the secre tary of state ofthe particular default on which said motion shall be founded shall be received as competent prima facie evidence to prove the same sec iv be it further enacted c that the governor of this state shall open a correspon dence with the executives cf the several states in which penitentiares are now established and obtain such statistical information in rela tion to the expenditures and profits of such in stitutions since the year 1839 as may in his view be necessary for the information of the people and cause the same to be published in the newspapers of the state previous to the election also obtain the different plans upon which penitentiaries of other states have been con structed lhe comparative cost of the cells under different plans and submit the same tothe next : general assembly ratified this 8th of january 1345 yankee courtship â€” a full-blooded jon athan residing in a certain town innew england once took it into his head to '* go a courtin he accordingly saddled the " old mare and started off to pay his de voirs to one of the buxom lasses of the neighhorhood after staying with his ' gal until daylight began to streak the east he made preparations to depart just as he was seating himself in the saddle his fair one who stood in lhe door and who by the way was marvellously fond of having â€¢ sparks wishing to have him come again stammered out " i shall be at home next sunday night zeb /" zebedee who was rather ' verdant couldn't take the hint taking out his tobacco box and biting off a quid of pigtail in less than a second ho nestly answered " so shall i by gaully /' three musters â€” there are none like luther's three masters â€” prayer â€” temp tation â€” meditation temptation stirs up holy meditation ; meditation prepares to prayer and prayer makes profit of temp tation and fetcheth all divine know ledge from heaven of others i may learn the theory of divinity ; of these only the prac tice other masters teach me by rote to speak parrot-like of heavenly things â– these alone with feeling and understand ' ing â€” bishop hall from the eauigm register of march 1th 1845 revolutionary history of north carolina execi tive office ) raleigh march 5!h 1s45 \ the undersigned most respectfully in vites public notice tothe resolution adopt ed by the general assembly at its last session viz : resolved that his excellency the gov ernor be and he is hereby authorized and empowered to collect if possible such pa pers as may be necessary to complete ihe . series of letter books and bave them cop ied and arranged under his supervision : and to obtain as far as practicable either the original papers orcopiesof the procee dings of the several town county and dis trict committees organized in the prov ince in compliance with lhe recommen dation of ihe continental congress of 1774 for the purpose of carrying into effect the articles of american association and the proceedings of the various committees and council of safety subsequently con vened under the authority ofthe provincial legislature die it will be observed that the resolution requires the collection of two classes ol documents ; 1st the correspondence ofthe execu tive department from tbe adoption ofthe constitution in 177(5 till the latter part of the year 17s4 ; when it was lirst made the duty ofthe governor by act of lhe gen : eral assembly to keep a letter book lor the purpose ol recording all important let ters this period embrace the entire ad ministrations ofthe three lirst governors viz : caswell nash and burke the cor respondence of governor burke exists as 1 am informed in a good state of preserva ' tion and can be readily obtained a part ofthatofgovernor c s'.vr.i.i..has been found in the department of state since the ad journment ofthe legislature correspond ing in the nos of the packages and in other particulars with a memorandum left by him of his public papers stated to have been deposited in that oflice ; and the residue it is believed are also ihere of the papers of governor nash none have been as yet discovered except letter written to him by lhe board of war of i he state which held its session first at hills ; boro and subsequently at halifax from the 14:h of september 17*^0 until the 30;h of january 17s1 copies of which are recorded on the journal of the board pre served in the department of state fre quent entries also appear on that journal of letters said to have been received from him and numbered and filed but not copied as his death occurred but a few years after his administration and during the early childhood of his only surviving son this gentleman in reply to inquiri from me is unable to n â€¢ *- gold " about it if mr pod complies wiih this